La empresa canadiense Edgewater quiere demandar a España por rechazar el proyecto de una mina de oro a cielo abierto en Cabana de Bergantiños, Galicia. Amigos de la Tierra denuncia que la indemnización solicitada podría ser millonaria.
There are many lessons from the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) that are relevant to the current debate over the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).
A private trade tribunal ruled that Canada violated rules in NAFTA because of an environmental impact assessment that led Canada to reject a company’s controversial mining project from moving forward in an important cultural and ecological area in Nova Scotia.
EU trade deals with Canada and the US could endanger citizens’ rights to basic services like water and health, as negotiators are doing the work of some of the EU’s most powerful corporate lobby groups in pushing an aggressive market opening agenda in the public sector.
Up until now, Australia has never agreed to provide American investors with access to Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS), whereas Canada has. In total Canada has faced 35 challenges. Australia has been subjected to only one case.
Canada will likely be left out of a new system proposed by the European Union for settling disputes between countries and corporations—at least for now.